On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:33, Ed Sutter wrote: > Hi, > I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days. > Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is > resolved. Next (and hopefully last) problem is that > each time I boot the system I have to manually enable > my network connection. When Gnome starts up, I see in > the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with > a big NOT sign (red circle with a slash > through it) over top of it. I right-click on that and > a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network. > Then everything is fine. > > How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically? > Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI.
I don't know about the GNOME desktop. For systems with static network configuration (one that doens't change, unlike laptops) it would be advisable to use the ifupdown package. Check out the documentation in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown . > > Thanks > Ed -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
